🌋 New version of the alert level table for the activity status of Campi Flegrei volcano (2025).

The intensity of the red indicates the population density up to 30,000 persons/km2; neo.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?dat...) to highlight the high risk of the area.

The INGV-OV seismic network (large yellow dots for the Campi Flegrei and small yellow dots for Ischia and Vesuvius seismic stations), both onshore and offshore, allows very precise localization of earthquakes.

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🔬 This new system could soon allow near real-time monitoring, improving risk assessment for the Campi Flegrei area.

📸 Map: earthquake locations and depths. Different shades of red indicate varying earthquake depths.

📊 With Artificial Intelligence, researchers discovered:
🔸 a ring fault system beneath the Gulf of Naples;
🔸 mostly tectonic quakes, shallower than 4 km;
🔸 no signs of major magma migration;
🔸 some “hybrid” events linked to gas and hydrothermal fluids.

📊 With Artificial Intelligence, researchers discovered:
🔸 a ring fault system beneath the Gulf of Naples;
🔸 mostly tectonic quakes, shallower than 4 km;
🔸 no signs of major magma migration;
🔸 some “hybrid” events linked to gas and hydrothermal fluids.

🎨 John Martin "The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum"
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➡️ Volcanological analysis: the wind pattern during the eruption (reconstructed from ash deposits) is more consistent with autumn.

📌 So, Vesuvius may not have erupted in the heat of summer, but in the cool of autumn… 🍂

➡️ Archaeological and botanical finds:
🔸 Remains of pomegranates, dried figs, walnuts, and chestnuts (all autumn fruits).
🔸 Amphorae containing freshly fermented new wine.
🔸 Victims found wearing heavy clothes and cloaks.
🔸 Coins minted after summer 79 AD.

Here’s the evidence ⬇️

➡️ Historical sources: medieval manuscripts of Pliny’s letters don’t all agree. Some mention August 24, others November 1.

📜🌋 In recent decades, historians, archaeologists, and volcanologists have gathered evidence suggesting a different, more autumnal date: October 24 or even November 79 AD.